Tumakuru, 2 April

Police on Thursday announced the arrest of a 56-year-old man from Delhi for allegedly manufacturing and selling counterfeit weight loss powder and spurious Ayurvedic products via e-commerce platforms using duplicate branding.

The accused, Rajeev Khanna, had been operating the business for around one-and-a-half years and confessed to selling wheat flour in containers labelled as genuine Ayurvedic tablets and powders.

His sons, Himanshu, 29 and Manan Khanna, 25, have also allegedly assisted their father in running the racket in Delhi. Both are absconding.

The matter came to light after Dhanalakshmi, owner of Jeeni Company in Yaragunte village in Tumakuru, filed a complaint with the police in August, 2025.

RK Traders of Delhi was misusing the trademark of Jeeni Company by selling fake products online under its brand name.

The police registered a case against Khanna and conducted a raid at a godown in Shalimar Bagh in New Delhi. They recovered counterfeit Jeeni Company products, duplicate Ayurvedic tablets, beauty creams, and Ayurvedic powders.  Khanna is believed to have cheated Jeeni Company of over Rs 15 lakh and caused losses worth crores of rupees to other companies.